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The Nantucket Islands Land Bank has purchased 31.7 acres on Quidnet Road from the Nantucket Land Council for $3 million. The Land Council, however, got so much more. More ... Anna Burnham and Samantha Pillion are this year's recipients of four-year college scholarships from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation. The Nantucket High School seniors were among the ten finalists selected as Nantucket Scholars by a review committee of school administrators, teachers and directors of the Nantucket Golf Club. More ... Ahouse fire that originated on the first floor of 107 Hummock Pond Road killed the sole occupant of the building at the time, 80-year-old Peter Miller. The fire burned about 40 percent of the structure early Sunday morning. Nantucket Fire Chief Mark McDougall said that the Nantucket Fire Department responded to a 911 call about the fire from the Nantucket Police Department at 4:50 a.m. More ... SSA OFFERS TICKET BOOKS FOR IYANOUGH The Steamship Authority has expanded ticket options for travel on their new high-speed passenger ferry. The high-speed ferry 10-ride passenger ticket book provides a $55.00 savings over purchasing tickets individually. In addition the books have no expiration date. The books are also transferable and save time at the ticket window. More ... It is the case that she and her crew worked on the night of Jan. 26, in the Creeks of all places, that reminds Senior Chief Sheila Lucey why her Nantucket experience in the Coast Guard is so unique. That night, the coldest of the winter, two men rowed out in a dinghy to check a boat on its mooring in Nantucket Harbor. More ... Nantucket Elementary School principal Paul Koulouris told teachers and staff yesterday afternoon that he will be stepping down after the current school year and moving back to Vermont to teach at the college level. Koulouris will be a full professor of education at Green Mountain College in Poultney. "It's not that I don't like Nantucket," he said. "I love teaching. More ... Nantucket Elementary School students of Gillian Myers' second grade class and Mike Girvin's fifth grade class braved rain and wind Friday morning to hang a banner in celebration of Earth Day at Brant Point to greet Daffodil Day visitors. While the elements prevented the successful display of the banner, the undaunted students then did a beach cleanup at Brant Point and the Jetties. More ... Pippen's Way, the proposed nine-lot subdivision at 12 Gardner Road and the addition to the Manor House with a five-lot underground parking garage drew criticism from the Planning Board on April 23, but no decisions. More ... While Daffodil revelers uncorked champagne on Main Street lawns in 'Sconset early Saturday afternoon, the town opened Sesachacha Pond to the ocean. About 20 people gathered to watch John Correia, the island's sole pond opener dig the trench across the barrier beach between the pond and the ocean with his excavator. More ... Bass fishermen call it cobble. Cobblestone-size rocks in scattered clumps can be found in 15 to 20 feet water, out to about 1,200 feet offshore about a half-mile north to half-mile south of Sankaty Head Lighthouse. In these underwater rock gardens of glacial moraine, according to Nantucket's commercial and charter striped bass fishermen, are all the marine yummies that bass love to nosh on. More ... Sand in the ocean off the South Shore in Madaket is moving not just westward, but also east, especially during violent ocean storms. That is the conclusion of Resolve Marine owner Joseph Farrell in a study he is doing of sand transport off Madaket. More ... |
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